TO: Jerry Jones' Kryptonite?

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones lives on the same block of Delusional Street on which the Steinbrenner family and Matt Millen reside.

While Millen believes the Lions needs more wide receivers (even in his unemployment), and the Steinbrenners believe that money can make everything better, Jones apparently is of the understanding that he can cure any player on earth of their social ills.

Jones fully supported wide receiver Michael Irvin during a very public cocaine arrest. He has also allowed strong personalities like Deion Sanders to invade Dallas. All he cared about was winning, and during the 1990's the Cowboys did that plenty.

But recently Jones has shown the questionable judgement usually reserved for Al Davis and the Oakland Raiders. After he was indefinitely suspended by the NFL for multiple violations of league policy and arrests, Jones saw nothing wrong with trading for Adam "Pacman" Jones. Pacman has proved to be a distraction this season and has spent more time watching than playing in Dallas.

But Pacman has been tolerable. When at least his issues were with himself.

After throwing his quarterback in San Francisco under the bus, the 49ers threw him out. After trashing his quarterback in Philadelphia, the Eagles packed his bags for him. And yet Jerry Jones thought that somehow, perhaps in a miracle, Terrell Owens would suddenly become a team player.

And, after Year One of the TO Experiment, all at least appeared to be okay. The tearful Season Two-ending press conference in which Owens begged the media to respect his new quarterback, Tony Romo, was the stuff of an afternoon soap opera.

But now we're in Season Three of the Experiment, and all isn't lovely in Texas. Owens has complained about not being the center of the offense, not having the ball thrown his direction enough, and not being Romo's favorite. He has called out Romo and tight end Jason Witten, and shown Good Ol' TO form by screaming at anyone in a headset on the sideline during a crucial loss.

This man defines "clubhouse cancer."

And yet, after teammates come to the defense of Romo and others backed Owens' Oliver Stone-quality conspiracy theory about a Witten-Romo kumbaya session to design new plays, Jerry Jones seems to think everything on the team is just fine.

Wake up, Jerry.

Reports on ESPN late on Saturday evening were that Witten and Owens were in a verbal altercation on Friday or Saturday. Romo has allegedly taken the stance that he can ignore Owens for six days and throw to him for one each week.

Rather than stepping in, as Jones has a history of doing, he decided it was a better idea to publicly question the toughness of arguably the toughest player on the roster, running back Marion Barber.

So the two best options for the Cowboys on offense are nearly throwing punches at practice, while the third best option is being questions in the media by the owner because of an injury.

Meanwhile, the Cowboys are on the fringe of the playoff mix, looking up at a handful of teams. The Cowboys needs to win the rest of their games and get some help from others to make it into the postseason. Any chance these are the results Jones was hoping for by paying for half the Pro Bowl team?

Jones has always stalked the sidelines in Big D, making sure everyone knew who owned the team. He has stuck his head in the business on the field as much as any owner in professional sports, and has never been afraid to tear a player apart in front of any available microphone.

But with Owens, Jones seems to have lost that twitch on the trigger. He dances around any issues that pops up, seemingly believing that to keep Owens happy is more important that both winning and having a team that works.

Since Owens' arrival in Dallas, the team has become a media circus by even Cowboys proportions. Between Pacman's issues, Owens' mouth, and Romo's love life, this team spends as much time on Page Four as they do the sports section of the paper.

Could it be that, in Owens, Jones has met his match? An equally maniacle, sociopathic control freak that has less respect for the "off switch" than Jones himself?